Congress went to a great deal of trouble this summer to keep many federal income tax laws the same, but it has not done much to change life and annuity rules lately.
Even before Oct. 1, the Internal Revenue Service and state insurance commissioners seemed to be holding back on making life and annuity waves.
Even the courts have been quiet.
The federal government began a partial shutdown Oct. 1, and that made it official: The shutdown has created an eclipse of the federal financial policy sun.
Life and annuity market trackers who normally could entertain audiences with wild Washington news may now have to learn to recover a lost art: watching the life and annuity issuers themselves, not just their rulemakers.
For a look at 10 of the recent life and annuity product strategy moves that could now get a little extra attention, thanks to the lack of activity in Washington and state capitals, see the gallery accompanying this article.
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